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Speaker 1: Welcome to The Wrap, a weekly podcast about women's sports

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Speaker 1: news and the big stories. Every episode will cover what's

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Speaker 1: happened over the weekend, a favorite story, and what to

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Speaker 1: watch in the coming week. My name is Chloe Dalton.

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Speaker 1: I'm an Olympic gold medalist in rugby sepens and an

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Speaker 1: AFLW player. I'm joined by my co host, Millie Dawson.

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Speaker 1: Milli is an athlete manager who works with some of

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Speaker 1: Australia's top female athletes. Him Mellicent, how are.

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Speaker 2: You hi, Chloe?

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Speaker 3: I am doing great. How are you doing? How is Townville?

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Speaker 4: It's good. It's warm.

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Speaker 1: It's not even as warm as I expected, which I'm

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Speaker 1: a little bit sad about. I packed full T shirts

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Speaker 1: and shorts and it's actually been a little bit cold.

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Speaker 1: I did lie on the rooftop pool in the sun today,

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Speaker 1: so I sure you I'm here like, no, it's great.

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Speaker 1: We got here a little bit earlier than expected with

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Speaker 1: everything that was happening with COVID in Sydney, but had

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Speaker 1: a really nice weekend and now we're getting prep for

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Speaker 1: our tournament on the weekend. We get to play against

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Speaker 1: New Zealand and Fiji.

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Speaker 2: I'm excited to watch that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't wait to play again. It'll be so nice.

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Speaker 1: I'm very very jealous of you wearing your hoodie. I

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Speaker 1: don't have one here with me, and you've got yours on.

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Speaker 1: I know, mad about it. I'm so happy. Yes, we

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Speaker 1: just launched our winter merch. We've got a couple of

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Speaker 1: hoodies and a crew neck for sale on pre order.

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Speaker 2: I love them.

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Speaker 3: This is the confius hoodie ever and I literally don't

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Speaker 3: think i'll take it off.

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Speaker 2: I've actually got my I'm so obsessed.

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Speaker 3: I've got my teefapp like women Play Sports T shirt underneath,

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Speaker 3: so that matter if I get a little bit hot,

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Speaker 3: I'm still wrapping the march.

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Speaker 2: Is that a bit excessive?

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Speaker 3: Maybe a little bit middle? A little bit much meals

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Speaker 3: a little bit. Next year, we've got to do track pants.

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Speaker 3: I want the full get up.

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Speaker 4: I want a matching set. We'll get next year. Next year,

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Speaker 4: I'll get there. Where do people go to pre order hoodies?

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Speaker 3: Head to the Female Athlete project dot com forward slash shop.

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Speaker 2: We'll head to our Instagram and you can click fight

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Speaker 2: the link and I.

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Speaker 4: Buy you there, smooth. Let's take a look around the grounds.

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Speaker 2: In netball.

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Speaker 3: Round eight of the Sun Corp Super Netball is a

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Speaker 3: split round and after the first weekend of Round eight,

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Speaker 3: the New South Wales Swifts found themselves on top of

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Speaker 3: the ladder for the first time this season. Even if

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Speaker 3: it was only briefly. The Swifts were always in control

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Speaker 3: as they secured a strong sixty four to fifty two

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Speaker 3: win over the Queensland Firebirds on Saturday at ken Rosewall Arena.

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Speaker 3: The Giants ended their three game losing streak on Sunday

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Speaker 3: in emphatic style with a fifty seven to forty one

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Speaker 3: but the Lightning and the West Coast Fever could go

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Speaker 3: second half of Round eight concludes.

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Speaker 1: In tennis, Naomi Saka has announced her withdrawal from Wimbledon

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Speaker 1: agent stated Naomi won't be playing wimbled in this year.

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Speaker 1: She's taking some personal time with friends and family. She

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Speaker 1: caused by her decision to skip post match press conferences,

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Speaker 1: Osaka revealed that she'd been dealing with anxiety and depression

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Speaker 1: since bursting into the limelight by winning the US Open

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Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. She's expected to be one of the

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Speaker 1: faces of the Tokyo Olympics, and we hope that this

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Speaker 3: In Simming, the Aussie swimming trials have finished up in

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Speaker 3: Adelaide and thirty five amazing Olympic swimmers and thirty two

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Speaker 3: Paralympic swimmers have qualified for Tokyo. I don't know about you, Klo,

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Speaker 3: but I literally was in tears every single night.

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Speaker 2: I was crying. I don't know why it's so inspiring.

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Speaker 3: So an incredible week of competition and it's just if

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Speaker 3: national bests. Arian Timmas set the second fastest time in

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Speaker 3: history in the two hundred meter freestyle, a remarkable feat

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Speaker 3: Madeline Golf delivered a new Australian record of fifteen forty

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Speaker 1: The Olympic team includes twenty one debutantes, as well as

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Speaker 1: Emily s Bomb and Kate Campbell, who joined former great

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Speaker 1: The swimmers have long set the bar for success at

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Speaker 1: I will say, though, I really hope on the back

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Speaker 4: But I really hope the media don't.

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Speaker 1: Go to town on these athletes winning gold medals because

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Speaker 1: they get so much pressure on them, the swimmers.

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Speaker 3: The swimmers, It's like, it's proven in past Olympics how

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Speaker 1: Agreed in rugby union. You love swimming, don't you. I

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Speaker 4: You've done your swimming and.

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Speaker 1: In rugby union, the new South Wales war Tars women

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Speaker 1: the next twenty four hours. The task crossed the try

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Speaker 1: line seven times. You like that in the f seven

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Speaker 1: to twenty six victory, with Mayo Stewart in red hot

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Speaker 1: Act Brumbies defeated the Melbourne Rebels thirty to five. In

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Speaker 1: Queenbian Brumbies fly half Ella Ryan was excellent and directing

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Speaker 4: In twenty twenty one one.

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Speaker 3: In canoe slalom, friend of the podcast, Jessica Fox continues

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Speaker 3: her charge to Tokyo by owning the second day of

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Speaker 3: the twenty twenty one ICF Canouslalam World Cup in Marklelberg, Germany,

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Speaker 3: world by her competitors. Jess has started the pre Olympic

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Speaker 2: That's just like true Jess Fox form, isn't it.

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Speaker 3: I love that she's honestly our little golden girl and

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Speaker 3: I cannot wait to watch her race in Tokyo in diving.

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Speaker 3: Another shout out for a guest on season one of

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Speaker 3: the Tefat podcast Melissa Wu has been selected to represent

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Speaker 3: Australia in her fourth Olympic Games. We will lead a

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Speaker 3: seven member diving team that includes three debutants. She's one

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Speaker 3: athlete who's actually benefited from the postponement of the game,

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Speaker 3: saying that Judea's shoulder and rib injuries, she may not

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Speaker 3: twenty as scheduled. I love watching what Mele posts on

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Speaker 3: her Instagram, like she posts so many cool training videos

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Speaker 3: and clips, and I also follow her physio as well,

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Speaker 3: who posts a lot of things because I'm trying to

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Speaker 3: keep my physio knowledge up because I never go to work.

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Speaker 3: But the amount of work that she does away from

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's wild blows my mind.

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Speaker 3: In athletics, Victorian born high jumper Eleanor Patterson had a

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Speaker 4: Let's take a look at the key story in rugby league.

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Speaker 1: The women's State of Origin will be played on Friday

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Speaker 4: That was devastating to watch.

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Speaker 1: That was The New South Wales Rugby League, however, has

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Speaker 4: Mills, can you tell us a little bit more about it?

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Speaker 2: Yes?

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Speaker 3: So, the New South Wales Rugby League is one of

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Speaker 1: I love what they've done in setting up this program

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Speaker 3: So, Klo, how do you think we can increase this

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think this is where it's really tricky.

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Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of things that come into

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Speaker 2: And just like the empathy side.

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Speaker 3: And second of all, as you would know, and I

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Speaker 2: So I think it's really important that.

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Speaker 1: State against State Made against Mate Women's State of Origin

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Speaker 1: takes place on Friday, June twenty fifth at Sunshine Coast Stadium.

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Speaker 1: You can catch what will be an epic match live

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Speaker 3: Fever will be looking to stay undefeated when they come

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Speaker 3: up against the Melbourne Vixens on Sunday, the twenty seventh

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Speaker 1: And in Rugby seventh we're playing the Oceania Tournament this weekend.

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Speaker 1: We're playing against New Zealand, Fiji and another Australian team

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Speaker 2: I for one can't wait to watch that one.

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Speaker 3: You better be watching yelling at the TV. I absolutely

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Speaker 3: we got, sus.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to sweat, I'm going to draw it.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to draw a tee fat down my trackies

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Speaker 4: And that's the wrap.

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